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Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London
Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by William Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by Willam Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1668
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 4: The two Witnesses, their Testimony.Sermon 4: The two VVitnesses, their Testimony.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now, when did the 42 months of the Beast begin?
In likelihood about the year 400 or 406 or 10 ⟨p. 114⟩or thereabouts, for to speak to a year or so, is not safe, Chronologers have been deceived: I say in the year of our Lord 400, or thereabouts.
In likelyhood about the year 400 or 406 or 10 ⟨p. 114⟩or thereabouts, for to speak to a year or so, is not safe, Chronologers have been deceived: I say in the year of our Lord 400, or thereabouts.
For look when that that hinders was taken away, then the man of sin was discovered: The mystery of iniquity did work in the Apostles time: In 2 Thes. 2. The mystery of iniquity doth already work verse 7. Only he who now letteth, will let until he be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked one be revealed:—When is that? As Jerome and all agree, the Roman Empire was the thing that let, and about those times was the Roman Empire taken out of the way; In 410. the Goths and Vandals broke in upon Rome it self, about that time was that that let taken away.
For look when that that hinders was taken away, then the man of sin was discovered: The mistery of iniquity did work in the Apostles time: In 2 Thes. 2. The mystery of iniquity doth already work verse 7. Only he who now letteth, will let until he be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked one be revealed:—When is that? As Jerom and all agree, the Roman Empire was the thing that let, and about those times was the Roman Empire taken out of the way; In 410. the Goths and Vandals broke in upon Rome it self, about that time was that that let taken away.